Most people wear heavy wool peacoats, heavy parkas, or insulated ski coats. Either three should suit you just fine. Something to keep your ears warm is essential too, when the wind chill gets really bad the last thing you want is your ears to be stinging.

Don't skimp out on gloves if you'll be doing a lot of walking/public transit, those knit gloves are cheap and the wind cuts right through them. I usually wear heavy ski gloves which keep my hands nice and toasty for long walks to the grocery store.

If you wear sneakers like vans, they'll fall apart over the winter due to the snow/salt/mush. Get some nice boots, they come with an added bonus of protecting you from slips on the ice!

Absolutely. We've got some decent sushi, but compared to something you'd get in SF it wouldn't be nearly as good. Likewise, if you got a pierogi in SF it wouldn't hold a candle to what some of the churches here put out. It's all about eating what the local specialties are!

They're a great option for price and traffic. The atmosphere at Gillette is pretty incredible on game day, and if you're a Habs fan it's definitely worth the hassle to tailgate with us in the main lot!

This. Assuming you'll be able to tailgate, arrive early and try to get a spot to the left as you arrive, and when the games over stay a bit afterwards and have a drink or two to avoid the worst of the traffic. If you don't want to pay stadium prices and want to get out (relatively) quickly there's off-stadium parking that goes against the flow of traffic coming out of the stadium and can get you to 1 quicker.

Some super helpful Eclipse shortcuts for all of you Java devs out there:

Ctrl+Shift+O - My favorite command, brings up a window that searches through all the files in your workspace. Say you have a file called AbstractLinkedList, you could find it by typing in ALL, or just search for AbstractLinkedList. Wildcarding is allowed with *, and you can exclude certain files from being in the search via the properties (.class files, .properties, etc).

Alt+Shift+R - Refactor a name, good when you want to quickly change a class file or a variable

Alt+Shift+Left/Right Arrow - Go to the previous/next element (Good if you have a lot of files open)

Alt+Shift+J - Add comments to a highlighted section, you can also remove comments by selecting a commented out piece of text.

Ctrl+Alt+H - Opens up the call hierarchy for a selected item. This is realllyyyy useful for big projects and you're not sure what other classes use a class.

Another tip, use the debugger. It'll save you tremendous time when trying to fix something. In the time it could take you to insert your log statements and recompile, you could have fixed the bug by stepping through the program and finding the point of failure. Learn what each debug command does and worship them.

All those clocks and watches you see when you're in Switzerland? They're just to make sure their world domination is going as scheduled. Soon they'll plug everyone's stomachs with cheap migros beer and fondue!